A large part of why ASiT is my favourite piece of fiction, not just my favourite Trek book. Reading that scene, in that novel, and hitting that line, helped me make what was probably the most important decision of my life (so far). If I were asked to define my personal story in a sentence, that's the one I'd point to. It's a simple line, but the effect it had on me was pronounced. "I bowed to the company, and turned my back on them". Is there any one moment in literature, whether in Trek or anywhere else, that truly satisfied you or brought a genuine sense of closure or catharsis, of acceptance? Something you're forever grateful you read, and that was written in a place where you might find it? If it's possible for a scene or a line or a piece of literary dialogue to, if you'll forgive the phrase, "change a life", does anyone here have an example?įor me, it was the basement scene in "A Stitch in Time" by Andrew Robinson specifically, its closing line:
This is somewhat off-topic, and perhaps I should have launched it as a Miscellaneous thread, but I reasoned that if we have a "What Are You Reading Now" thread, etc, in Literature, then this should be acceptable.
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